Ezekiel 23:47
New International Version
The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.

New Living Translation
For their enemies will stone them and kill them with swords. They will butcher their sons and daughters and burn their homes.

English Standard Version
And the host shall stone them and cut them down with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses.

Berean Standard Bible
The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.

King James Bible
And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

New King James Version
The assembly shall stone them with stones and execute them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn their houses with fire.

New American Standard Bible
The contingent will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire.

NASB 1995
‘The company will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords; they will slay their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire.

NASB 1977
‘And the company will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords; they will slay their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire.

Legacy Standard Bible
The assembly will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and their daughters and burn their houses with fire.

Amplified Bible
And the horde will stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and their daughters and burn down their houses with fire.

Christian Standard Bible
The assembly will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The assembly will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses with fire.

American Standard Version
And the company shall stone them with stones, and despatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the multitude shall stone them with stones, and they shall strike them with their swords, and their sons and their daughters they shall kill, and their houses they shall burn with fire

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And stone them with the stones of a multitude, and pierce them with their swords: they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and shall burn up their houses.

Contemporary English Version
They will stone you to death and cut you to pieces; they will kill your children and burn down your houses.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And lee the people stone them with stones, and let them be stabbed with their swords: they shall kill their sons and daughters, and their houses they shall burn with fire.

English Revised Version
And the assembly shall stone them with stones, and despatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then the mob will stone them and kill them with swords. The mob will kill their sons and daughters and burn their homes.

Good News Translation
Let the mob stone them and attack them with swords, kill their children, and burn down their houses.

International Standard Version
Then the army will stone them with stones and cut them to pieces with their swords. They'll kill their sons and daughters and incinerate their houses.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the assembly shall stone them with stones, and despatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

Literal Standard Version
And they have cast the stone of the assembly at them, | And cut them with their swords, | They slay their sons and their daughters, | And they burn their houses with fire.

Majority Standard Bible
The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.

New American Bible
The army will stone them and hack them to pieces with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and set fire to their houses.

NET Bible
That army will pelt them with stones and slash them with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn their houses.

New Revised Standard Version
The assembly shall stone them and with their swords they shall cut them down; they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses.

New Heart English Bible
The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn their houses with fire.

World English Bible
The company will stone them with stones and dispatch them with their swords. They will kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

Young's Literal Translation
And they have cast at them the stone of the assembly, And cut them with their swords, Their sons and their daughters they do slay, And their houses with fire they burn.

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Context
Judgment on Both Sisters
46This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Bring a mob against them and consign them to terror and plunder. 47The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses. 48So I will put an end to indecency in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your behavior.…

Cross References
Leviticus 20:10
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife--with the wife of his neighbor--both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.

Jeremiah 39:8
The Chaldeans set fire to the palace of the king and to the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 16:40
They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

Ezekiel 23:25
And I will set My jealous rage against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will cut off your noses and ears, and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your remnant will be consumed by fire.

Ezekiel 23:48
So I will put an end to indecency in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your behavior.

Ezekiel 24:21
Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: 'I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul. And the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.'


Treasury of Scripture

And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

the company

Ezekiel 23:25,29
And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire…

Ezekiel 9:6
Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.

Ezekiel 16:41
And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.

dispatch them.

Ezekiel 24:6
Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.

shall slay

Ezekiel 24:21
Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.

2 Chronicles 36:17-19
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand…

and burn

Deuteronomy 13:16
And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.

Jeremiah 39:8
And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 52:13
And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:

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Ezekiel 23
1. The unfaithfulness of Aholah and Aholibah
23. Aholibah is to be plagued by her lovers
36. The prophet reproves the adulteries of them both
45. and shows their judgments














(47) With stones . . . with swords.--The figure and the reality are here designedly mixed. Stoning was the legal punishment of adultery, but the actual overthrow of Jerusalem was by the sword.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The mob
קָהָ֔ל (qā·hāl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6951: Assembly, convocation, congregation

will stone
וְרָגְמ֨וּ (wə·rā·ḡə·mū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 7275: To cast together, to lapidate

them
עֲלֵיהֶ֥ן (‘ă·lê·hen)
Preposition | third person feminine plural
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

and cut them
אֶ֙בֶן֙ (’e·ḇen)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 68: A stone

down
וּבָרֵ֥א (ū·ḇā·rê)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 1254: To create, to cut down, select, feed

with their swords.
בְּחַרְבוֹתָ֑ם (bə·ḥar·ḇō·w·ṯām)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword

They will kill
יַהֲרֹ֔גוּ (ya·hă·rō·ḡū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 2026: To smite with deadly intent

their sons
בְּנֵיהֶ֤ם (bə·nê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1121: A son

and daughters
וּבְנֽוֹתֵיהֶם֙ (ū·ḇə·nō·w·ṯê·hem)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1323: A daughter

and burn down
יִשְׂרֹֽפוּ׃ (yiś·rō·p̄ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 8313: To be, on fire

their houses.
וּבָתֵּיהֶ֖ן (ū·ḇāt·tê·hen)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine plural
Strong's 1004: A house


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